Healthcare

Many forces are transforming our nation’s healthcare industry.  Balch maintains a healthcare practice that includes seasoned practitioners who serve a broad range of healthcare organizations and are skilled in all aspects of health law and emerging issues impacting the healthcare industry. Our attorneys are recognized for their collaborative approach towards healthcare compliance, transactional, operational and regulatory legal issues, positioning us well to anticipate and address industry complexities with creative, practical solutions. We serve academic medical centers, private tax-exempt hospitals, for-profit hospitals, physicians and physician-practice groups, third party payors, lenders to the health care industry and ambulatory surgery centers.

We have experience representing borrowers, underwriters, issuers, bondholders and providers of credit enhancement in hundreds of private and public healthcare, taxable and tax-exempt financings. Additionally, we have served as legal counsel in conjunction with numerous mergers, acquisitions and divestiture projects and taxable and tax-exempt financings with the transactions ranging in size from $100,000 - $4.25 billion. We regularly advise on antitrust issues associated with mergers and consolidations.  Our attorneys have experience advising clients on healthcare compliance plans and provide assistance with compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) by drafting HIPAA policies and procedures.